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SPOTLIGHT: ST. MARY MEDICAL CENTER BY CHRIS SHEID
Cardiologists Anas Safadi, MD,
and Kais Yehyawi, MD, discuss
various tools available to help
clear chronic total occlusion,
a blocked artery in the heart.

TECHNOLOGY
and Teamwork

Interventional cardiologists use advanced procedures
to clear chronic total occlusion
Gary Kimble had experienced heart attacks before
and had stents put in place
to open blockages in his heart. When
the Gary resident first began noticing
a lack of energy and shortness of
breath, he quickly followed up with
St. Mary Medical Center cardiologist
Anas Safadi, MD.
"Heart attacks are not all the same,"
Kimble says. "Each one of mine was

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totally different. With one, I'd had a lot
of pressure and pain. The last one, I
was out of breath and just didn't want
to do anything. It's important to keep
up with your appointments and get
checked out."
Initial testing showed that Kimble's
heart was weak. An angiogram revealed
that he suffered from chronic total
occlusion (CTO), a condition in which
a major artery to the heart has been

closed for many years. In Kimble's
case, he had two of three arteries
severely blocked.
"He was not a candidate for openheart surgery," Safadi says. "Five, six
or seven years ago, we could not offer
surgical intervention to patients like
Gary because the arteries were blocked
almost like a brick wall. The technology
we had at that time was not suitable for
treating this condition."



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